{"id":15494,"date":"2025-06-07T13:31:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/pat-lam-bristol-bears-boss-motivated-to-take-club-next-step-to-a-future-final\/"},"modified":"2025-06-07T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-07T13:31:44","slug":"pat-lam-bristol-bears-boss-motivated-to-take-club-next-step-to-a-future-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/pat-lam-bristol-bears-boss-motivated-to-take-club-next-step-to-a-future-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Pat Lam: Bristol Bears boss motivated to take club next step to a future final"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Bristol finished fourth in the table, securing their semi-final spot – and their first since 2021 when they topped the league – in the final round of the regular season with a win against Harlequins six days previously.<\/p>\n

They did so with the smallest squad in the Premiership and after missing key players such as fly-half AJ MacGinty and winger Gabriel Ibitoye for large chunks of the season.<\/p>\n

Against Bath they scored a breathtaking try which started metres from their own tryline through Kalaveti Ravouvou and was capped off by James Dun, and showcased plenty more of the quick, slick ball-handling skills that made them one of the top attacking outfits this season, and briefly stopped Bath in their tracks.<\/p>\n

But across 80 minutes they could not match their opponents – particularly with the loss of scrum-half Harry Randall on 37 minutes to a shoulder injury and following two yellow cards.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Bristol finished fourth in the table, securing their semi-final spot – and their first since 2021 when they topped the league – in the final round of the regular season with a win against Harlequins six days previously. They did so with the smallest squad in the Premiership and after missing key players such as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rugby"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15496,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15494\/revisions\/15496"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}